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James Robins

@jamesrobins.bsky.social
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THE DREADNOUGHT www.thedreadnought.news Amateur hack. Words also in New Republic, TLS, Verso, Vulture, etc

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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I was interviewed by the good comrades at @jacobinmag.bsky.social about Blowing Up Everything is Beautiful: Israel's Extermination of Gaza
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
"My bones ache from being stepped on, but I have to do it for my children."
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'Maybe we'll eat sand'
What starvation is like
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
If anyone ever tells you 'Hamas could end this war today if they released the hostages' - send them this
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
A skeleton need not speak. It only needs to present its bones to make you a liar. On the myth of Israel’s ‘war aims’ and how the nightmare is sustained by lying:
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‘They won’t return for a hundred years’
The war depends on lying
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The experience of the past twenty months has taught Israel’s politicians and its officers impunity: there is no action they could order that goes too far, no strategy they can dream up that might be too extreme.
thedreadnought.news
Here is the plan for Gaza's annihilation
What 'voluntary emigration' really means
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Here's my interview with @avasantina.bsky.social & @politicsjoe.bsky.social talking about Blowing Up Everything is Beautiful
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Journalist deconstructs US/UK complicity in Gaza conflict | James Robins interview
YouTube video by PoliticsJOE
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
This “humanitarian” regime is not benevolent, nor the heartbroken sympathy of the world for a people on the brink of annihilation. It is a new phase of that annihilation, an instrument of Israeli policy to dominate Gaza. On the new aid plan, for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com
There Is Nothing “Humanitarian” About Israel’s New Gaza Aid Plan
Yes, Israel is letting some food into Gaza. But only so it can more efficiently brutalize its people.
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The bare rancour in Israeli rhetoric since it unilaterally broke the January ceasefire will only seem freshly terrifying to anyone who hasn’t been paying attention. This is not a “mask off” moment. The mask was never on.
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This is not a ‘mask off’ moment
The mask was never on
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Back From The Brink @backfrombrink.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Review of new book "Six Minutes to Winter" by @marklynas.bsky.social: "My generation of millennials was the first to spend their childhoods in relative innocence, largely free from warnings of nuclear apocalypse...The threat never went away."
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Review | The threat of nuclear annihilation demands our immediate attention
In “Six Minutes to Winter,” Mark Lynas explores the lasting threat and true horror of nuclear weapons.
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Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Wonderful and expansive review of my book Six Minutes to Winter by @jamesrobins.bsky.social in the @washingtonpost.com. "Two options remain: deterrence or annihilation. How long do we have before the former gives way to the latter?" washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
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Review | The threat of nuclear annihilation demands our immediate attention
In “Six Minutes to Winter,” Mark Lynas explores the lasting threat and true horror of nuclear weapons.
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
"Annihilation is unthinkable. It is not nearly as unthinkable as allowing our present suspension to continue...These weapons are the worst thing humans have made, the worst we could ever make." My debut in the @washingtonpost.com on @marklynas.bsky.social's urgent new book
washingtonpost.com
Review | The threat of nuclear annihilation demands our immediate attention
In “Six Minutes to Winter,” Mark Lynas explores the lasting threat and true horror of nuclear weapons.
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Seeing as we're all giving Douglas Murray a good kicking at the moment, I've unlocked my piece from last year on this twinky quisling, this bargain-bin Moseley, and his stupid, evil project
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Douglas Murray vs the tall trees
“Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?”
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
"A searing indictment of the brutality and atrocities inflicted on the Palestinians of Gaza and the collaboration of powerful nations in their murder." Blowing Up Everything is Beautiful is out in the US today! Hurry to your nearest (independent, preferably) bookstore.
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
just guys being dudes I guess
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Even before Trump made his insane and annihilatory demand to kick Palestinians out of Gaza, the ceasefire was already headed for collapse. This is how it happened -
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Who killed the ceasefire?
What really happened
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Even before Trump made his insane and annihilatory demand to kick Palestinians out of Gaza, the ceasefire was already headed for collapse. This is how it happened -
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Who killed the ceasefire?
What really happened
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Why are the Democrats suddenly so mad? Because Trump interfered with the imperatives of empire, and one of the core principles of the one-party consensus was broken: the duty to inflict massive violence at will, and to do so with your mouth shut.
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This is what they're mad about?
Groupchat bombing and the imperatives of empire
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
"History doesn’t need survivors. But the living strands are being cut. With them to the wind goes a tangible memory of the combat necessary to bring about the destruction of fascism." On the passing of the last Battle of Britain veteran
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A coda for the few
John Hemingway, 1919-2025
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The nightmare begins again. How did we get to this point? BLOWING UP EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL: ISRAEL'S EXTERMINATION OF GAZA is now available for pre-order: www.skyhorsepublishing.com/arcade-publi...
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
A small teaser:
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"The quest to annihilate the people of Palestine began long before October 7. Someday it will meet its final end, and people the world over will get to work distorting the past. This unsparing reporting on the mass murder in Gaza will make their task more difficult" - @erikmbaker.bsky.social
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
“This book is a must-read...It demands serious reflection and soul-searching, but above all, action to stop the continued ethnic cleansing and slaughter of the Palestinian people with our tax dollars. This book could not be more timely and urgent." - Dan Kovalik
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The nightmare begins again. How did we get to this point? BLOWING UP EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL: ISRAEL'S EXTERMINATION OF GAZA is now available for pre-order: www.skyhorsepublishing.com/arcade-publi...
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
"The question needs to be turned around. Not 'Why did you stick to your guns?' but '"Why did you give up your guns so easily?'" My latest on Tariq Ali's late career and tending the radical flame, for @thetls.bsky.social
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Tariq Ali laments the ‘decline of the street-fighting left’
Pally with Bertrand Russell and Mick Jagger, begging to get on the roof of a house in Hanoi to shoot at the final futile waves of Operation Rolling
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
They told you what they were doing while they did it. Thrilled (and humbled) to announce my book on the Gaza nightmare will be out in April
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
reupping this for no particular reason and definitely not because it says something about the band of rubes who rule us
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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 28/01/2025
#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
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Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
All the wind has gone out of the Democrats again. The principal divide between them and Republicans seems to be whether or not they prefer their facelifts to appear human or not. On the horrorshow of the inauguration:
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You're gonna have a lot of fun watching television
And so it begins. Again.
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
looks like RFK's brain worm has taken control again
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The Palestinians - like subaltern peoples everywhere - shall be made to remember that they have been disciplined. That extermination, even if its perpetrators have stepped back from the brink this time, was possible. On the ceasefire, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1903...
newrepublic.com
The Ceasefire Won’t End the Bloodshed in Gaza
The ceasefire was urgently needed and wildly overdue. But as long as Israel clings to land that is not its own and covets more, it’s not the end of the fighting.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17/01/2025
There will be time now to find the dead; perhaps even the months necessary to mourn them. But a pause is not peace. Stasis is not an end.
newrepublic.com
The Ceasefire Won’t End the Bloodshed in Gaza
The ceasefire was urgently needed and wildly overdue. But as long as Israel clings to land that is not its own and covets more, it’s not the end of the fighting.
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The Palestinians - like subaltern peoples everywhere - shall be made to remember that they have been disciplined. That extermination, even if its perpetrators have stepped back from the brink this time, was possible. On the ceasefire, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1903...
newrepublic.com
The Ceasefire Won’t End the Bloodshed in Gaza
The ceasefire was urgently needed and wildly overdue. But as long as Israel clings to land that is not its own and covets more, it’s not the end of the fighting.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 26/12/2024
The settler movement’s plans to reconquer the Strip and build on the ruins of Palestinian lives aligns neatly with those of the state that is today clearing the desired real estate.
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The Year of the Israeli Settler
What was in early 2024 still a fantasy for the messianist movement is today on the verge of being realized.
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
This year, I wrote a lot about the nightmare being inflicted on Gaza and its people. Here's a thread of pieces for @newrepublic.com that (at least) try to give some shape and clarity to the cruelty: 🧵1/
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
End/ There is a word to distill the monstrous totality of what is underway in the north of Gaza: extermination. And this rampage might be the first example of a modern war where its butchers tell you what they’re doing while they’re doing it. newrepublic.com/article/1890...
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The Year of the Israeli Settler
What was in early 2024 still a fantasy for the messianist movement is today on the verge of being realized.
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
9/ Like its client and customer, the U.S. finds itself at the opposite end to the goal of greater justice. Daily it sacrifices the postwar legal and moral order on the altar of Israeli arrogance and bloodlust. newrepublic.com/article/1888...
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Joe Biden Is Trashing International Law
The two highest courts in the world now have open cases against the state of Israel and its current leadership. The United States couldn’t care less.
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
8 / "To mourn the present and wish for something different is not a counterfactual. It is a warning of the kind that has been sounded at every critical juncture of the last eight decades and has always been ignored." Every massacre is a choice. newrepublic.com/article/1867...
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The Missed Moral Lesson of October 7
Hamas’s attack should have triggered not military retaliation but the immediate resumption of negotiations for a just peace.
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
7/ What does “total annihilation” look like? From the morass of suffering, examples and images tend to select themselves and lodge in the brain like an infection. Here is one - newrepublic.com/article/1816...
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
6/ "What this picture reveals is a coldly vengeful abandoning of restraint, a super-technological dismemberment... These techniques, each as deadly as the last, are notable for how they can be excused and disguised as conforming to international law." newrepublic.com/article/1806...
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The Scariest Unit in the Israeli Army Is Not an Elite Fighting Squad
It’s the International Law Department, which gives the army permission to kill 15 to 20 civilians per combatant death and pastes a veneer of properness over IDF operations.
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
5/ "Treasures are everything in a land deprived of everything but treasures. These marvels stoke a dream: a time when a people will no longer be threatened by bombs and tanks, proof at last of a their right to live in the lands of their birth." newrepublic.com/article/1800...
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Israel Is Demolishing Gaza’s Cultural Heritage
During war, cultural property is supposed to be immune from attack. ​In Gaza, it’s being rapidly destroyed.
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
4/ "Talk of 'solutions' brings up the nastiest memories. It is tasteless to stick 'final' in front of that term. But when Smotrich and the settlers say they want this state of affairs to be 'irreversible,' it is difficult to think of anything else." newrepublic.com/article/1790...
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The Israeli Settler Movement’s Ugly Postwar Plans for Gaza
The settlers and their allies take for granted that fewer Palestinians—not counting those already slain—will live in their homeland once the conflict is over.
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
3/ "The Israeli government insists its evacuation measures are only temporary. So was the Nakba. Permanence matters. By the time the next stage of hearings begins, the ICJ will be asked to judge something that has already passed into history." newrepublic.com/article/1784...
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The International Court of Justice’s Rebuke of Israel Was Swift and Scathing
The judges’ provisional ruling dismissed almost every objection—moral, technical, procedural—thrown up by the Israeli defense team.
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
2 / Genocide is a flawed bit of law. But without a legal protector like Israel has in the US, these are the methods Palestinians have to resort to. And the ICJ hearings proved that propaganda cannot stand up to clear evidence of a crime newrepublic.com/article/1781...
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Israel’s Subtle Threats at the International Court of Justice
Lawyers for Israel defended the country’s bombardment of Gaza with a polite, legal form of blackmail.
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
This year, I wrote a lot about the nightmare being inflicted on Gaza and its people. Here's a thread of pieces for @newrepublic.com that (at least) try to give some shape and clarity to the cruelty: 🧵1/
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
"a take I found online that I think is interesting"
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James Robins @jamesrobins.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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A fifty buck cab ride to nowhere
Michael Clayton, revisited
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